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A project to explore action teaching in community development, using technology to the extent that it is useful!Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:22:12 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on About the Project by Jason MacLeodhttps://processinpractice.wordpress.com/about-the-project/#comment-40
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:22:12 +0000http://processinpractice.wordpress.com/?page_id=38#comment-40Wow what an amazing interactive adventure in learning, teaching and technology.

I look forward to seeing how it all plays out. Please keep me posted. I hope you and your fellow collaborators will write about the experiment! Yikes would that take it to a P5 level?

It sounds and looks very exciting … and frankly kind of mind altering … in a good way.

Enjoy the adventure :-).

Warmly

Jason

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Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:16:29 +0000http://processinpractice.wordpress.com/?p=327#comment-34Hi Lynda – I thought I’d pop in briefly to say I really enjoyed the panel discussion on Thursday (or whenever it was!). A quick note on the justification for blended learning – when the question was asked, I did have a mind blank! I knew you had talked us through it but couldn’t remember at first what you had said. By the time I remembered (the key thing that came to mind was what you had said about last year’s projects and the lack of connection/interaction between students and different projects), we had run out of time and had to leave!

Thank you very much for the opportunity to let us have our say. I think you did a great job too at capturing a diversity of experiences and opinions in such a small group of students that are meant to be representative in some way. Well done!!

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Sun, 20 Jun 2010 01:32:42 +0000http://processinpractice.wordpress.com/?p=321#comment-33Hi Lynda,
I have to admit that I was one of your slack students in followng your blog to the extent that I should have. But I was obsessed with my own, and between that and followng 9 other peoples in the class I was short on time. But I was kept updated by others who were following yours, and I feel bad cause I had comments to make re the negative feedback but just didn’t get around to it. So I am taking ths opportunity to do so now.

First congrats on the last post sounds like it was great. And you have to cut yourself and us some slack on the not remembering the answer to ‘WHY’- that was on the first day of class – not unnatural for that to be forgotten given when the conversation was held.
If you look at this way a full time student has four subjects – on average 16 hrs of listen to lectures and tut information per week, followed by another average of 20 hours per week of reading, researching for uni. Then you need to add our entertainment- sport, music, tv, movies, games etc at least 20 hours per week, then our work, family and friends between all then at least 30 hours. In a week that is 86 hours informaton gathering to remember, plus 56 hours of sleep (if we are lucky) which leaves us with 26 hour per week to travel to and fro and to ourselves. So 13 weeks later you are contending with 1118 hours of information we have been collected – that is a lot of data.

Next in regards to the negatve comments, I can only answer for me. I have to say that I have had a great learning experience. To the point where I feel it reflected in my assignment – I was so enthralled with doing something different that I negelected the standard research and theory required for that assignment (hence not such a good mark). I am ok with this- cause I found the rest far more interesting and stretching of my skills, this is more benificial to me. I know that I can do the research and match theory, but I didn’t know about blogging (and now twitter).

I am offering my experience in the second part of this comment as an employer in this area, I have students at my service all the time, and I have learnt numerous things from them over the years, including how to do powerpoint.

I do have an expectation when I have students come to my office that I can learn something from them equally as much as they can learn from me. Many managers in this field have been in the field a long time- and many are behind the times in knowing how to use the technology – not that they don’t want to, but they are busy and have little time to investigate themselves. When students come and are able use and teach this knowledge (no matter how basic) it is appreciated and very helpful.

It would also be something I would consider as making a person applying for a job, a skill that I would consider extremely valuable. The sector knows it needs to catch up fast and we are looking for vehicles to do this- for me as a student and an employer I have already begun using this as a selling point to those in my field to help them with blogs, twitter, videos on line- AND IT IS WORKING.
So from me a big thankyou Lynda for taking us down this path.

Lastly re the power comment, power is a stange beast, but it needs to be looked at in context and remember that it is an individuals view point and their understanding of their own social arrangements. So in this envronment I am throwing in a comment from an assignment I have just finished for another class on the topic of people and their relationshp to power in the global context.
‘In addressing the context of globalisation of social work the interaction of people with their social arrangements needs to be investigated; looking specifically at the strong relationship between the exercise of power on peoples experience. The implication of power within the global context and the impacts this has on the social arrangements for people is different in each circumstance. However power has far reaching affects into each community, the application of power is principal to the human experience (Layder 2006, O’Conner 2008 p 16).
And that experience is both good and bad- for me in this circumstance I am saying it was a good one. So I just wanted to say thank you Lynda for the experience.
Karen

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Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:09:41 +0000http://processinpractice.wordpress.com/?p=237#comment-32Excellent – thanks Natalija. I’ll check out listthings – although in my hands that could be dangerous as it may simply feed my obsessive compulsive side! but hey, colours – I’m in!
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Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:15:57 +0000http://processinpractice.wordpress.com/?p=237#comment-31Delicious is a great tool to utilise, minus the yahoo-ness…Memonic.com is something i’m in love with as well, limited tagging ability, but you do get to highlight specific content of sites and create a notebook feel of your bookmarks. It is also easier to create bookmarks, as once you log in you can ‘drag’ the icon onto any computers toolbar and use it, instead of installing. But the free version only lets you create 100 entries. Worth a look, but delicious still wins out due to the price 🙂

Also, have you heard of http://www.listhings.com ??? It’s only a Beta version currently, but it looks promising. Essentialy you have a cork canvas where you can post sticky notes up, you can order them, arrange them etc. The cool thing they do, is that you can ‘share’ your canvas with other people and they can also add to it… sort of like an online graffiti wall… Comming soon the program will enable you to take notes from outside the site, similar to the memonic concept.. highlighting sections – saving them as notes – and they automatically get organised on your profile. Very exciting stuff + it looks amazing… you can even change the colours of the post-it :)… Did I mention they are also a 100% carbon neutral company?

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Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:20:53 +0000http://processinpractice.wordpress.com/?p=312#comment-30To move away from the shivering term of ‘I think’… ‘I believe’ the current system in tertiary education -more generally within undergraduate – encourages students to identify problems, however, stops the exploration process by directing them to critically appraise the issue through reputable tinted glasses. I understand that as undergraduates, academically our knowledge does seem limited…However, what I don’t comprehend, is why when a student presents an original criticism, conceptualised through their own fresh eyes – underpinned with valued sources – they are penalised. There needs to be some flexibility with the arbitrary marking criteria to enable students to follow through on ideas, and not fall short of their analysis because they are worried they won’t be able to find an appropriate author to reference. The tertiary system is rapidly expanding -especially with the introduction of dual-degrees and technological learning environments- but it seems to have forgotten that the bright students harboured within knowledgeable institutions, have no ‘space’ to understand, explore, conceptualise or express their learnings. Our ideas may not adorn us with a Nobel Prize, but we do have a unique outlook, so why not encourage that, let us develop it, guide us, instead of slamming a structured manual on our desks. ‘I feel’ the process is failing us. Allocating grades may seem arbitrary, but in a world where you cannot get employed or even into post-graduate study without an embossed piece of paper and a high GPA, grades matter. Classes need to include ‘free’ forums so we can openly discuss the topics, develop ideas or simply gain a more in-depth understanding from a range of views. We need ‘space’. Otherwise, some students hand in assessment with absolutely no idea of what they just did; other’s try to tackle too many ideas at once and need a hand to guide them. Maybe participation assessment – similar to 2288 – is needed across all subjects, or maybe it’s simply the notion of being able to explore issues without fear of persecution? Maybe anonymous online graffiti walls, with the lecturer providing students with weekly responses to the common issues?
One thing is for sure, any teacher that does tackle and change/modify the process is brave and deserves a raise.

I do fear that I have just added to the kerfuffle of food-for-thought.

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Mon, 24 May 2010 21:16:27 +0000http://processinpractice.wordpress.com/?p=275#comment-29Thank you Hisayo for your generous words. I lose spirit around this time of year (just like students, eh?). In my role I hear a lot about struggle. As a mentor very few students come bursting into my room to tell me what a great time they’re having, how much they love learning, how they’ve just been to the best tutorial ever or to ask how to nominate their favourite lecturer for the UQ Teacher of the Year Award! Which makes comments like yours all the more valuable. Thank you so much for your generous spirit. lynda
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Wed, 19 May 2010 17:44:42 +0000http://processinpractice.wordpress.com/?p=275#comment-28Dear Lynda

Hello, I really like your title and picture
although it’s about struggle.

I truely appriciate your feedback for project plan!! When I got it back from office and looked at it, I was so surprised to see all the comments you wrote for me. Just imagining marking 50 assignments already make me tired so it must have been really painful to mark them all in fact…

You are one of the most wonderful lecturer I’ve met at UQ. I can see that why you are chosen to be a student mentor advisor 🙂

Smile & Love

Hisayo

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Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:21:41 +0000http://processinpractice.wordpress.com/?p=263#comment-27Hi Linda,
I have read your post for the last few days. I can only speak for myself. I have recently had to compare two articles – one depicted that social workers are ok with the unknown and admitting that they don’t know the answers. In keeping with this I hope the social work students are embracing the unknown readily.

Your concept of doing the delivery of our assessment is unsual – but for me the rationle I used in picking all my electives was to be stretched and challenged.

I know I am only one voice but I think I am one of many to say that being involved and working with you as innovators of this style of delivery is exciting. It is through our trials and errors that we truly learn- which was what the beginning of last weeks lecture was about.

So hang in there and the cool kids will still like you even if it all falls around all of us.
Karen

In response to the fear about blogs/IT and whether you’ve set the bar too high – I think alot of the fear around IT comes from people’s lack of experience and exposure to it. What I’ve noticed in a few of the posts on the discussion board (and I wouldn’t be surprised if we see more of this) is that once students take the first step (do a quick google search about setting up blogs, trying out a blog site), they realise that it’s a much easier process than expected!

I think this is a great way to expose students to a tool that they might otherwise have been too afraid to explore on their own. Asking students to extend themselves a bit out of their comfort zones can be immensely rewarding for everyone involved.